The QWERTY phone makers are back with a new smartphone called BlackBerry Key2. Last year the smartphone company had launched BlackBerry KEYone which is the predecessor to the latest release. The Key2 smartphone was unveiled at an event held in New York on June 7. The new BlackBerry Key2 has few notable highlights that it offers, the phone comes with a Series 7 aluminium alloy frame, a textured diamond grip back panel and claims to offer users a two-day battery life. With the new BlackBerry Key2, the Qwerty keyboard gets new shortcut button allowing users the ability to launch apps and activate commands. BlackBerry’s new smartphone will be the first phone in their portfolio to sport a dual camera setup. BlackBerry KEY2 is priced at $649 (approx. Rs. 43,800) in the US and will start shipping globally sometime later this month. The phone comes in two colour variants - Black and Grey.

Coming to the specifications, the new BlackBerry Key2 smartphone sports a 4.5-inch full-HD display with an aspect ratio of 3:2 and runs on Android 8.1 Oreo. The device is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 SoC, combined with 6GB of RAM. As for camera specifications, the KEY2 smartphone incorporates a horizontal dual camera setup with two (12MP+12MP) sensors at the back that include Dual Tone LED flash. At the front, the device gets an 8MP sensor capable of recording HD videos. The cameras at the back support PDAF, HDR and 4K video recordings at 30FPS. The smartphone comes with two internal storage options 64GB and 128GB. As for the battery capacity, the handset gets a 3500mAh battery. The smartphone also comes with sensors like Accelerometer, Ambient Light sensor, Gyroscope, Hall Effect sensor, a Fingerprint sensor (situated on the spacebar key), Magnetometer & Proximity sensor.

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